2017 marked a watershed year for digital brand advertising with factors including trust, transparency, safety, measurement, user experience, consolidation, Facebook/Google dominance and the use of data all up for debate. Throw in a wobbly economy, Brexit (ahem), GDPR and the welcome, but as yet un-established changes brought by the Coalition for Better Advertising, and 2018 […]
A new report into women aged between 53 and 72 from the J. Walter Thompson London Innovation Group shows that 72% “don’t pay attention to advertising” while 91% wish advertisers would treat them like people and not stereotypes. And with 78% of 50+ women saying they control the purchase decisions in their households and the […]
We live in a world that has never been more socially connected. Likes, shares, comments, posts and tweets have become the staples of worldwide conversations that can spread faster than wildfire around the globe. Why? Because humans are social creatures, we want to share our experiences, hopes, dreams and fears and technology allows us to […]
Grad life is hard, but I’ve always been told the hardest things yield the greatest rewards, and that’s especially true in this case, because the reward is your first job in the marketing industry. Not just an internship or a placement, a fully fledged, all the bells and whistles, proper job. As a recently graduated […]
MarComm’s Star Parade is a series where we shine the spotlight on some of the global stars from the Marketing and Communications industry, and Souvik Datta has been a creative beacon in India for over 17 years now. Creativeland Asia’s executive creative director has previously worked for some of India’s leading agencies and his work has also […]
MarComm’s Magnificence is a series where we highlight Magnificent individuals from the Marketing, Design, Advertising and Communications industries. In this magnificence list, we are spotlighting those individuals who provide the business to the creative industry, while protecting their brand’s image and interests. We look at the Chief Marketing Officers (CMO’s). So without further ado, here are our […]
In a fragmented media landscape OOH continues to deliver in both reach (90% reach of adult population) and time spent (three hours a day) with the medium. Alongside this DOOH will reach 50% of revenues but most importantly be able to reach 50% of the adult population. OOH is reaching a tipping point where data, […]
As the year winds down, Oath‘s Head of EMEA, Stuart Flint is sharing some insight on digital marketing predictions for 2018. Looking to the future, Stuart discusses digital ad spend and the growing demand for augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality; developments in programmatic; artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning coming together to create a more holistic technology […]
As 2017 comes to an end, key leadership of Serviceplan Group have highlighted their communication trends for the coming year: My meta trend is “Changelocity” By this I mean the connection of change and velocity and thus the enormous and rapidly increasing speed of change, which has covered practically all our areas of life. Whether we are […]
MarComm’s Star Parade is a series where we shine the spotlight on some of the global stars from the Marketing and Communications industry, and Ruchita Zambre is star who has been shining in India for a while now. She has over 12 years of experience, working in a good mix of animation, multi-media and mainline agencies. Now […]